Strange Letters, Accents When Typing

[Eyeliv2ryde]

I get promted to choose letters that I have never seen or letters with french? accents when I am typing using an external keyboard. This happened with a no-name key board from eBay. So today I went out and purchased a relatively expensive Belkin keyboard folio and the strange accents are appearing again.
I have my language setting at US English.
Help would be most appreciated.
Thanks.